Test 11 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the w…
what even is at sixes and sevens, like everything's a total mess?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: everything · What happens: be · To what, where: sixes
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1659 «Lang's Fairy Book, Esben and the Witch: Esben roasts the witch, saves his brothers and goes home» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.
The question
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | even | even | ADV | _ | 5 sixes | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sixes | cop |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sixes | case |
| 5 | sixes | six | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 what | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sevens | cc |
| 7 | sevens | seven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sixes | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mess | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADP | _ | 14 mess | case |
| 10 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 mess | nsubj |
| 11 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mess | cop |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 mess | det |
| 13 | total | total | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 mess | amod |
| 14 | mess | mess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sixes | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sixes and sevens and a total mess | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | everything | like a total mess | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
The options
Option 1
yep, things are tangled up badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 tangled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 tangled | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 tangled | aux:pass |
| 5 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 tangled | compound:prt |
| 7 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 tangled | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tangle up | present · passive | things | badly property | tree rules |
Option 2
nope, all fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 4 fine | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 fine | det |
| 4 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, everything's in a muddle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 muddle | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 7 muddle | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 muddle | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 muddle | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 muddle | det |
| 7 | muddle | muddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | everything | a muddle | tree rules |
Option 4
yeah, the whole thing's gone haywire
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 haywire | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thing | det |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 haywire | nsubj |
| 6 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 haywire | cop |
| 7 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 haywire | amod |
| 8 | haywire | haywire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the whole thing | gone haywire | tree rules |
Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.
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